Douluo Continent!
Star Luo Imperial City!
Qian Daoliu had already left with the six Enshrined and the Angel Legion.
When the Star Luo Empire's hundreds of thousands of soldiers poured into the imperial city, all they found were corpses strewn across the ground.
Among them were their emperor and empress.
Now the military commanders began entertaining ideas of their own.
The Star Luo Empire was a highly centralized, militaristic nation, and its emperor was the supreme commander of all its armed forces.
Without the emperor to keep them in check, the commanders could not help wondering: With the emperor gone, why couldn't I become the new emperor?
Especially after news arrived from the front lines: the hundred-thousand-strong army led by the crown prince and crown princess had completely scattered, and both had died in battle.
Well, then!
The emperor and empress were dead!
The crown prince and crown princess were dead too!
What more was there to say? War. There had to be war.
The emperor is gone. I'm the emperor now!
The Star Luo Empire immediately plunged into civil strife!
Spirit Hall!
Qian Daoliu and the six Enshrined were still in fairly good condition.
But the Angel Legion had followed Qian Daoliu into battle across the north and south, and they were already utterly exhausted.
As soon as they returned to Spirit Hall, Qian Daoliu dismissed the Angel Legion and sent them off to rest.
"The Angel Legion can rest, but we cannot."
"Golden Crocodile!"
The moment he spoke, Golden Crocodile stepped forward.
"Great Enshrined!"
Qian Daoliu's gaze flashed like lightning as he issued his command.
"Draw ten thousand elite Soul Masters from Spirit Hall to form a Soul Master legion, and march with me at once to strike the Heaven Dou Empire. Now that the Star Luo Empire has fallen into civil strife, there is no reason to leave the Heaven Dou Empire standing either."
At those words, Golden Crocodile solemnly cupped his fist.
"As you command. I'll make the arrangements immediately."
After Golden Crocodile left, Qian Daoliu turned back to the Sky Screen, his eyes filled with wonder.
"The technological system of that Blue Star world truly beggars belief. Even ordinary people can live well without relying on Soul Masters."
"They eat well, dress well, and live in buildings more luxurious than palaces. When they go out, they have cars swifter than Soul Beasts."
"Once our Spirit Hall ends this north-south standoff between Heaven Dou and Star Luo, we must improve people's livelihoods too. We must let the common people live well."
"Haha, my granddaughter looks outstandingly beautiful in Blue Star clothing too. She truly shines in a crowd."
"But that Xiao Ran grabs my granddaughter's hand the moment they go outside. That brat! If the Sky Screen weren't between us, I'd smash his head in."
As he watched further, Qian Daoliu frowned.
"Hm?! What? Tang San isn't from Douluo Continent? He's a transmigrator, nothing but a thief who stole his sect's cultivation techniques? Someone like that can become a god, and even a God King with Dual God Fusion? Is the Divine Realm really a place that harbors filth and corruption?"
"That inherently evil Tang San destroyed Slaughter City and released all the Evil Soul Masters inside. He even nurtured bandits to bolster his own standing. The more Evil Soul Masters Shrek Academy exterminated, the more there were, until their extermination efforts finally produced a Holy Spirit Cult!"
"Despicable! Utterly despicable! Just so he could absorb the power of faith to cultivate, he left the continent's people in deep water and scorching fire, suffering slaughter at the hands of Evil Soul Masters day after day."
"When we destroy the Heaven Dou Empire this time, we must wipe out Shrek Academy as well. That scourge is nothing less than a cancer on Douluo Continent."
Once Golden Crocodile had assembled the ten thousand elite Soul Masters, Qian Daoliu personally went outside the city to address them.
"Warriors of Spirit Hall!"
"I will lead you in a swift assault on the Heaven Dou Empire. That rotten, backward nation is a stumbling block on Spirit Hall's great path to unification."
"Destroy the Heaven Dou Empire and wipe out Shrek Academy! Shrek Academy is a cancer on Douluo Continent. Listen to what Xiao Ran said on the Sky Screen: Shrek Academy acts as the tiger's accomplice. For Tang San to obtain the power of faith, the more Evil Soul Masters Shrek Academy exterminated, the more there were. That is a crime! They are placing the continent's people beneath the Evil Soul Masters' butcher knives."
"I, Qian Daoliu, will never allow such a cancer to continue existing on Douluo Continent. March with me!"
As his words fell, cries for blood erupted throughout the ranks.
"Kill! Kill! Kill!"
As members of Spirit Hall, they were all filled with a sense of justice. Xiao Ran had clearly laid out Shrek Academy's crimes on the Sky Screen, and these elites of Spirit Hall had long since been seething with righteous indignation.
Then Qian Daoliu, Golden Crocodile, Azure Luan, Lion, Guang Ling, Qian Jun, and Jiang Mo led their forces out once again, this time toward the Heaven Dou Empire.
Spirit Hall's ability to put plans into action truly left nothing to be desired.
Having finished attacking the Star Luo Empire, Qian Daoliu was now going to attack the Heaven Dou Empire.
Meanwhile, Bibi Dong had not been idle either. With Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo, she visited the various kingdoms and principalities, giving their rulers a dose of reassurance so they would obediently relinquish their power and support the establishment of the Spirit Hall Empire.
Heaven Dou Imperial Palace!
Yu Xiaogang stared dumbfounded, then pointed at the Sky Screen and launched into a furious tirade. "The Sky Screen is spouting nonsense! Xiao Ran is spouting nonsense! My disciple Tang San is pure as ice and spotless as jade, harbors kind intentions, and protects all living beings. He deserves to be called the God King of Great Love."
"How could he let Evil Soul Masters grow stronger just to absorb the power of faith? If the more Evil Soul Masters Shrek Academy exterminates, the more there are, then that must be Shrek Academy's problem. What does it have to do with my disciple?"
"This is slander! Naked slander!"
Flender's expression was ugly. How had the Shrek Academy he founded been belittled by Xiao Ran as utterly worthless?
They were the championship team of the Soul Master Tournament, the number one academy on Douluo Continent.
Tugging at his beard, Flender said indignantly:
"That Xiao Ran is completely unreasonable. Our Shrek Academy is merely an academy. Our willingness to exterminate Evil Soul Masters already shows our noble character."
"Why should all the blame fall on our Shrek Academy? Exterminating Evil Soul Masters is Spirit Hall's job. If anyone is to blame, blame Spirit Hall. Why don't they go exterminate the Evil Soul Masters ten thousand years from now? That just proves they're irresponsible."
"Hmph! Our Shrek Academy won't be held hostage by moral demands. Why should Shrek Academy be blamed for Evil Soul Masters running rampant ten thousand years from now, instead of Spirit Hall?"
Liu Erlong coughed, glanced at Flender, and said:
"Well... according to the earlier account, we already destroyed Spirit Hall. The problem of Evil Soul Masters running rampant ten thousand years later really can't be blamed on them."
Flender stubbornly refused to admit fault and retorted to Liu Erlong:
"Sister Erlong, you're mistaken."
"Why will Evil Soul Masters appear ten thousand years from now? Because Spirit Hall hasn't thoroughly exterminated the Evil Soul Masters of today."
"We can simply wait until Spirit Hall has wiped out the Evil Soul Masters before we destroy Spirit Hall. Exterminating Evil Soul Masters and protecting Douluo Continent are Spirit Hall's duties."
"Spirit Hall only needs to focus on exterminating Evil Soul Masters. We, on the other hand, have much more to consider in our efforts to destroy Spirit Hall."
Dugu Bo curled his lip and unobtrusively moved farther and farther away from Flender, Yu Xiaogang, and Liu Erlong, lest a future bolt of heavenly retribution strike him along with them.
What kind of nonsense was that?
Spirit Hall exterminates Evil Soul Masters up front while you destroy Spirit Hall from behind.
Doesn't that fucking make you accomplices of the Evil Soul Masters?
No wonder Xiao Ran said on the Sky Screen that Shrek Academy nurtured bandits to bolster its own standing.
Could the leaders of Shrek Academy and the Holy Spirit Cult ten thousand years from now actually be in cahoots?
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